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Originally Posted by phrontist
I question this analysis. Assuming the robot is going as fast as it can go before impact (the worst case scenario), the force being exterted by the robot is the same as long as it's on the ground. This lessens the impact by transforming that force the robot is exerting through it's drive train and moment into upward movement, causing it to lose contact and limiting it's pushing power. As soon as the attacker makes contact with the bumper, it's now adding to the normal force between bumper-equipped robot and carpet. All of it's pushing efforts are used against it, It's really very zen.
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Yeah, thats exactly what I was thinking about it. Its a defensive mechanism, so once something is driven (or it drives) into something, that inital force is absorbed. And then the collision follows as it would have if the spring wasn't there.
The reason though why this is abvantagous particularly in the 05 is game is that it eliminates all of the minor forces that would push up on the robot. Particularly those minor ones that throw you off when you are about to cap.